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Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

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09/06/2016

... Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois. Guan and his colleagues conducted a research ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Opens Applications for its 2017 Prize

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09/07/2016

... at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. As part of the program created around the Prize, winners will be ... audiences. Applicants must have between 2 to 8 years of experience running their own...

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RFPs Etc

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Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations

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09/09/2016

... at Cultural Organizations The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs is beginning an initiative to improve ... by the Rockefeller Foundation, will place City University of New York students as interns at...

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/15/2016

... report, Raising Our Nation , highlights the true cost of the impact that a lack of access child care has on working mothers, especially low-income women of color. With ...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with mayors, artists and cultural leaders working together to develop risk-taking public art...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... learned? Considering these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing ... investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information. Findings in the report are based ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

... Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act is to focus more on population ... violence-free neighborhoods. Three years after the launch of...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors

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10/17/2016

... Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the election of Nicole Gueron, co-founder of the law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... on items they've viewed or bought. So why aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to improve ... the capacity to do so. Nearly half pointed to a shortage of staff and financial...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

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10/31/2016

NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member With a compelling personal narrative and a track record of helping the needy, Darren Walker, the president of ... Would Mr. Walker’s...

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After the Election, Building the Beloved Community

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11/23/2016

... Building the Beloved Community by Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. Re-posted with permission from the ... has begun, but the contemplations and reverberations of election week are still very...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... project will, among other things, help establish a state- of -the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center ... than $44 million raised through a Christie’s auction of about half of...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the university's most civically minded undergraduates. The award marks the completion of Atlantic's grant-making, totaling $8 billion over 35...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

... to Treat Asthma Angel's Story looks at the early success of a home-visit program at Northwest Assistance Ministries ... (EHF). The program searches for the non-medical causes of children's chronic...

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation ... centered on gender and feminist politics in the age of trans-identity, on view from February 9...

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How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

... Eric Schneiderman a special prosecutor in certain cases of civilian deaths involving police officers. At the time, much of the country was focused on several high-profile examples of police...

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Justice Reform

Weinberg Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer

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03/20/2017

... Officer The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has ... provide leadership and support to all financial aspects of the Foundation, effectively...

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

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03/22/2017

... The Stay Midtown program is one tangible example of how these recommendations can be implemented. Launched ... access to the neighborhood, and continue the work of increasing opportunity for all residents who...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... to “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In fact, the program is budgeted at ... from two private foundations, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ford Foundation...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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